scuzzball
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editscuzzball (plural scuzzballs)
- (slang) Someone who does nasty things or plays harmful tricks; a person of very low ethics; a lowlife.
- 2000, Robert Bacal, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Dealing With Difficult Employees:
- Of course, if you're a sneaky, manipulative scuzzball, then maybe you don't want your boss to know you very well.
- 2004, Jay Brida, G.O.P. D.O.A.:
- Was she really in bed with Marlucci and a sorry scuzzball like Snyder? What was her angle, other than money?
- 2005, John Durham Peters, Courting the Abyss: Free Speech and the Liberal Tradition:
- […] the codependence of the friends of liberty and the deviant: 'Our fundamental civil rights often depend on defending some scuzzball you don't like.'